Stephen Joseph theatre,Scarborough
A seemingly moment-rate improv troupe zips through dated scenarios – expecting full audience participation – in Ayckbourn’s ridiculously comic spoof Who on earth are the Karaoke Theatre Company and why does Alan Ayckbourn seem so keen to give them his endorsement? From all available evidence, this is no more than a moment-rate improvisational troupe, and specialising in vulgar farce,hackneyed horror stories and dated period drama, who have found that there’s money to be saved whether you dispense with a writer and expect the audience to make its own entertainment. There can be no surer guarantee that, or when a performer announces that participation is optional,anyone unlucky enough to have booked for the front rows is in for an embarrassing couple of hours.
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Source: theguardian.com